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I left work just in time last night to make it to Whole Foods, a place where I typically experience a world in which poverty is not the first thought, as it is the rest of the day and night. As I stood in an aisle, with two people between the shelf and the food choices I waited to make,…

This morning, thousands of mothers in our community did not have enough food for their kids. Some kids will not eat today – at all. They will all be hungry, as families continue to live in a region with so much, yet they can not eat a meal and many will live the last two weeks of the month with…

“What is service?” someone asked me at an event today, followed by the question “what does it mean to serve?” Service, I shared, is the manifestation of love – not romantic love, but altruistic love. And the meaning of service is simply to become more whole. We are intimately connected to one another – I as connected to a person…

It is one of the ways – perhaps the best way – to feel connected to another human being. When you look into the eyes of another human being, you connect in an easy yet meaningful way. In that connection, barriers and boundaries cease to be present. Differences are harder to see than the oneness that is most characteristic of…

David Bohm, a world-renowned 20th-century physicist and protege of Albert Einstein’s, once wrote that people do not depend on one another as much as they “are one another.” That was one of his major conclusions following a lifetime of research and examination of the universe and its parts. Bohm was well-versed in classical and quantum physics, and he drew his…